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Slim

Boys' name

Possibly skinny, slim

Slim has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Slim, 1918

1 in 310,000

Slim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Slim: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly skinny, slim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Slim means

Slim may mean “skinny, slim”, associated with -tsʼósí.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an English surname, from the noun slime, probably topographic. * As a Native American surname (Navajo), from the English adjective slim, a calque of personal names containing the suffix -tsʼósí (“skinny, slim”), such as Hastiin-tsʼósí (“slim man”), see also Tsosie.

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Origin, language, and formation

Slim is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Slim is pronounced /slɪm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Slim between 1904 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,378 in 1904.

How common is Slim?

Slim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1918, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1918
1 in 310,000
7 of 2,171,052 births
Among boys only
1 in 145,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1918
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
214,981 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Slim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1918 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 214,981 children born in 1918 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Slim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Slims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Slim was born before 1918 — so the typical Slim is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Slim rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (7)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#1,378
1904

Spellings of Slim

Slim is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 35.1% against Slim's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Slim around the world

Where Slim ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1955–2025
    #3,783
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Slim by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,378
1904
Peak year
1918
7 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Slim

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Slim

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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